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title: But finding the Fig-Tree denuded of leaves, the snow fell through to… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: But finding the Fig-Tree denuded of leaves, the snow fell through to the ground, and did not injure it at all. Who acts: finding, snow. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 107

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But finding the Fig-Tree denuded of leaves, the snow fell through to the ground, and did not injure it at all.

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**Who acts:** finding, snow · **What happens:** find, denude, fall through, not injure · **To what, where:** Fig Tree, tree, all

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (finding, snow), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg21:16:107
# text = But finding the Fig-Tree denuded of leaves, the snow fell through to the ground, and did not injure it at all.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	finding	find	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	csubj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	Fig	Fig	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Tree	Tree	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	denuded	denude	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	through	through	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	injure	injure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | gerund |  | the Fig Tree |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Topic |
| 2 | **denude** | past | finding |  |  |  |  | of leaves | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent of leaf=Theme |
| 3 | **fall through** | past | the snow |  |  |  |  | to the ground; through *property* | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **injure** | past · do-support | finding *not said here* | tree |  | all |  |  | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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